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The footnote doesn't address "the fact that an author can extract significantly more money from them by selling rights in pieces that then hamstring the publishers down the road vs selling them in larger blocks" other than by saying publishing...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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It also came when Games Workshop moved from being a company which sold games to a company which sold expensive figures. This happened when Brian Ansell's Citadel Miniatures took over Games Workshop (who had lost the TSR Hobbies/AD&D franchise in the UK around the time). The CM crew's priority was to sell miniatures and accessories on as large a commercial scale as possible. GW's earlier management's priority had been to subsidize their RPG hobby by running shops and a fanzine. There was a Night of the Long Knives, followed by a corporate pivot in the direction of the pocket money...
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Antonia T Tiger commented on
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We could argue a long time over details of the story. The change in style didn't come quite with the Citadel Miniatures takeover, as I recall it. Things happened 1987-88, with the Warhammer40k hitting the scene in late '87....
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paws4thot commented on
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Also Antonia's #51 and #56 I'm not sure which of you is right about the timescale, although I'd agree with Charlie about the plot synopsis. My suggestion for when Jo Public noticed the change would be a 1987/88 issue of "White Dwarf" which carried an outright statement that they would no longer cover non-GW systems "because our editorial team can't write dispassionately about them"....
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Dave P commented on
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Here's an interesting opinion piece on CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/30/opinion/khan-amazon-hachette-antitrust/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1...
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john.bartley commented on
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